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University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) is a public bilingual research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the largest English-French bilingual university in the world. It is ranked #189 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in the library's institutional repository, uO Research (Recherche uO Research), which runs on DSpace 7.6.5 and exposes both a public DSpace REST/HATEOAS API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. uOttawa does not operate a single unified public developer portal; most enterprise and student-information systems are gated behind institutional SSO.

University of Ottawa publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, and Bilingual.

The University of Ottawa catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Ottawa’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 7 more developer resources.

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20.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityCanadaBilingualLibraryInstitutional RepositoryDSpaceOAI-PMHOpen Access

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.5/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 4.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

uO Research DSpace REST API

Public DSpace 7.6.5 REST/HATEOAS API for uO Research (Recherche uO Research), the University of Ottawa's institutional repository. The API root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6...

uO Research OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for uO Research. An Identify request confirms protocol version 2.0 and repository name "Recherche uO Research", supporting standard verb...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Ottawa Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Ottawa Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

University Of Ottawa Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

University Of Ottawa Context

17 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

University Of Ottawa Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-ottawa
name: University of Ottawa
description: 'The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) is a public bilingual research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and
  the largest English-French bilingual university in the world. It is ranked #189 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
  Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in the library''s institutional repository, uO Research
  (Recherche uO Research), which runs on DSpace 7.6.5 and exposes both a public DSpace REST/HATEOAS API and an OAI-PMH 2.0
  metadata-harvesting endpoint. uOttawa does not operate a single unified public developer portal; most enterprise and student-information
  systems are gated behind institutional SSO.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-ottawa.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-ottawa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Canada
- Bilingual
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-ottawa:ruor-rest
  name: uO Research DSpace REST API
  description: Public DSpace 7.6.5 REST/HATEOAS API for uO Research (Recherche uO Research), the University of Ottawa's institutional
    repository. The API root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and dspaceName "Recherche uO Research", and discloses available
    endpoints (communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search) via HAL _links.
  humanURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/
  baseURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api
- aid: university-of-ottawa:ruor-oai
  name: uO Research OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for uO Research. An Identify request confirms protocol version 2.0
    and repository name "Recherche uO Research", supporting standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets,
    GetRecord) for harvesting open-access scholarly metadata.
  humanURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/
  baseURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-ottawa-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uottawa.ca/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uottawa-wcms
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/uottawa/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-ottawa-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-ottawa-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-ottawa-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com